HTML::FormValidator =================== Version: 0.11 Description ----------- HTML::FormValidator validates user input (usually from an HTML form) based on an input profile. It's main aim is to make the tedious coding of input validation expressible in a simple format and to let the programmer focus on more interesting task. When you are coding web application one of the most tedious though crucial task is to validate user's input (usually submitted by way of an HTML form). You have to check that each required fields is present and that some feed have valid data. (Does the phone input looks like a phone number ? Is that a plausible email address ? Is the YY state valid ? etc.) For simple form, this is not really a problem but as forms get more complex and you code more of them this task became really boring and tedious. HTML::FormValidator lets you defines profiles which defines the required fields and their format. When you are ready to validate the user's input, you tell HTML::FormValidator the profile to apply to the user data and you get the valid fields, the name of the fields which are missing, the name of the fields that contains invalid input and the name of the fields that are unknown to this profile. You are then free to use this information to build a nice display to the user telling which fields that he forgot to fill. Installing ---------- The usual: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install Documentation ------------- Documentation is included in POD format. Bugs ---- Send bug reports and suggestions to Authors ------- Francis J. Lacoste Copyright --------- Copyright (c) 1999, 2000 iNsu Innovations Inc. Copyright (c) 2001, 2002 Francis J. Lacoste All rights reserved. This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.